Meaning and background
The story behind Lev
Lev has two well-established, unrelated naming histories. In Russian and Ukrainian, Лев means “lion” and is the everyday equivalent of Leo; Tolstoy’s original given name was Lev. Hebrew לֵב, pronounced differently, means “heart”. Neither translation can be chosen from the Latin letters alone, so both deserve mention whenever this compact name is explained.
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